Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

AN INTERVIEW WITH ENNIO MORRICONE (1994)

Ennio Morricone occupies a unique place in the history of twentieth-century music. He is without question one of the world’s most successful, and brilliant, composers for film, although he continues to write surprising music for the concert hall as well.

ENNIO MORRICONE AND THE SCORING OF “ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST”

On set, Leone relied for atmosphere upon tapes of Ennio Morricone’s main musical themes, which, this time, had all been written, performed and recorded in advance: ‘Everyone acted with the music, followed its rhythm, and suffered with its “aggravating” qualities, which grind the nerves.’

Sergio Leone con Ennio Morricone

ENNIO MORRICONE: INTERVIEW (1984)

Ennio Morricone has written some of the cinema’s most- recognizable and best-loved film scores including the recent Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America”. Here he is inter­viewed by Sue Adler.